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Japan is offering families in Tokyo ¥1 million (US$7,550) per child to depart to a more rural location, in a scheme aimed at halting depopulation of the countryside.

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It’s the latest in a series of ill-advised incentives to stop a relentless influx to the capital, which has seen its population grow more than 16 per cent in the last two decades despite a decline in numbers nationwide.

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With an existing flat ¥1 million payment per family for moving, a couple with two children would from April 1 be eligible to receive ¥3 million in support if they leave, so long as they fulfil certain conditions. 

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For decades, every Japanese administration has talked of revitalising the countryside - indeed, there may be few subjects that attract so much attention for so little gain.

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Japan has had a minister in charge of reviving rural areas for the better part of a decade, while one of the signature policies of current Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is the Digital Garden City, an overwrought scheme aimed at using technologies such as drones and self-driving buses to overcome the disadvantages of living in the Japanese inaka.

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But it will take more than autonomous gadgets and one-time payouts to encourage more than a handful of people in the Tokyo area to relocate.

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No one knows better the attraction of the city than the politicians and bureaucrats of Nagatacho, Tokyo’s centre of power, who themselves promote such relocation programmes but nonetheless concentrate there - having effectively rejected the the idea of building a new and artificially soulless capital like South Korea’s Sejong and the under-construction Nusantara in Indonesia.

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As an increasing number of people are beginning to realise, through a combination of design and happy circumstance, that Japan created something incredible in Tokyo - a bustling, walkable metropolis

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It’s a towering centre of culture where even city-centre property is still relatively affordable (by the standards of comparable cosmopolitan capitals), built with the types of combined-purpose micro-neighbourhoods that urban planners can only dream of creating. 

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The advent of post-pandemic remote work might make it easier than before to live in a rural area - and did result in the first decline in Tokyo’s population in a quarter-century.

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